New Yorker receives most mag kudo noms

Mag nabs 9 mentions across eight categories

The New Yorker once again dominates the National Magazine Award nomination roster. Mag has nine mentions across eight categories, including general excellence, reporting and feature writing.

Last year, mag picked up five Ellies — the nickname of the elephant-shaped award designed by Alexander Calder. There are 19 categories in all.

The Atlantic Monthly and Time magazines each received five noms. The New Yorker’s Conde Nast siblings Vanity Fair and Vogue nabbed two apiece.

For the first time, InStyle, O and Sports Illustrated for Women all made it on the ballot. Last year’s fiction winner, Zoetrope: All Story — a division of Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope — is a finalist in that category again. Teen People, a surprise winner last year for general excellence (for mags with a circulation over 1 million), did not find itself a repeat nominee.

Noms are first selected by a screening panel of educators and industryites; a separate jury of 75 chooses winners. Awards will be presented May 1 at the Waldorf Astoria.

ReportingThe Atlantic Monthly: Michael Kelly, editor, for The Crash of EgyptAir 990, by William Langewiesche, November.Fortune: Rik Kirkland, managing editor, for Is Enron Overpriced?, by Bethany McLean, March 5.The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for three articles by Seymour M. Hersh, What Went Wrong, October 8; King’s Ransom, October 22; The Iran Game, December 3.Time: James Kelly, managing editor, for Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi, by Alex Perry, December 10.Yankee Magazine: Jim Collins, editor, for A Question of Life and Death, by Geoffrey Douglas, September.

Public InterestThe Atlantic Monthly: Michael Kelly, editor, for Bystanders to Genocide, by Samantha Power, September.Governing: Peter A. Harkness, editor & publisher, for Grading the States 2001, by Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene with Michele Mariani, February.San Francisco Magazine: Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief, for Trouble in the Presidio, by Kerry Tremain, December.Self: Lucy S. Danziger, editor-in-chief, for The Big Fat Question: If Obesity Is America’s Number-one Health Problem, Why Do So Many People Have to Go It Alone? by Shannon Brownlee, December.Sports Illustrated: Bill Colson, managing editor, for Snow Job, by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, December 10.

New York Magazine: Caroline Miller, editor-in-chief, for three columns by Michael Wolff, Russert to Judgment, February 12; Sullivan’s Travels, March 5; The Stupids, April 9.Newsweek: Richard M. Smith, chairman and editor-in-chief; Mark Whitaker, editor, for three columns by Anna Quindlen, Playing God on No Sleep, July 2; A Good Girl, A Great Woman, July 30; Imagining the Hanson Family, September 24.Newsweek: Richard M. Smith, chairman and editor-in-chief; Mark Whitaker, editor, for three columns by Fareed Zakaria, The End of the End of History, September 24; The Allies Who Made Our Foes, October 1; Let’s Spread the Good Cheer, November 26.

The Oxford American: Marc Smirnoff, editor, for three columns by Hal Crowther, Among the True Believers, May/June; The O Brotherhood, Summer; A Man of the World, Fall.

EssaysThe American Scholar: Anne Fadiman, editor, for Moving, by Anne Fadiman (under the name of Philonoë), Winter.Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for Welcome to Cancerland, by Barbara Ehrenreich, November.Men’s Journal: Sid Evans, editor, for 40 Years in Acapulco, by Devin Friedman, July.The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for My Father’s Brain, by Jonathan Franzen, September 10.The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for The Revolt of Islam, by Bernard Lewis, November 19.

Reviews and CriticismThe Atlantic Monthly: Michael Kelly, editor, for three pieces by Caitlin Flanagan, The Wedding Merchants, February; The Tabloid Habit, July/August; Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor, September.Gourmet: Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief, for three reviews by Jonathan Gold, for Foam Follows Function, April; Ticket to the World, May; Nothing Like a Flame, June.GQ: Arthur Cooper, editor-in-chief, for three reviews by Alan Richman, Toro! Toro! Toro!, March; Slicing Up Naples, May; Pardon Us, Bubba…, July.Harper’s Magazine: Lewis H. Lapham, editor, for three reviews by Lee Siegel, Seize the Day Job, March; The Second Coming of Richard Yates, July; Cold Verities, October.The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for three pieces by Hilton Als, This Lonesome Place, January 29; In Black and White, June 4; Unhappy Endings, December 3.

Single-Topic IssueCincinnati Magazine: Kitty Morgan, editor, for Listen to Me: Growing Up Young, Black and Male, August.Gourmet: Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief, for its special Paris issue, March.The Nation: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor, for Death Trip: The American Way of Execution, by Robert Sherrill, January 8/15.The New Yorker: David Remnick, editor, for its September 11 special issue, September 24.Time: James Kelly, managing editor, for its September 11 special issue, September 13.